NCNicolas Cassia Terrazo
Oxford, England, United Kingdom · operatorNicolas Cassia Terrazo is an Argentine mathematician and modeller. He represented Argentina at the International Mathematical Olympiad in 2016 (honourable mention) and 2017 (bronze medal) and was a three-time national champion of the Argentine Mathematical Olympiad. He read Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Oxford (MMAth, 2018-2022) and took a Research Masters in Stochastic Control at the University of Edinburgh (2022-2023). His work and internships have been research-oriented: an undergraduate research assistantship at Oxford, a reinforcement-learning research internship at the WhiRL Lab, and a research internship at KAUST on mean field games. He has worked since 2023 as an Energy Modelling Analyst at Aurora Energy Research. The one finance-adjacent item on his record is participation in Citadel's Discover Citadel spring programme in 2020, a student event rather than employment.
- Quant employment verification: NOT CONFIRMED. No actual quantitative-finance role or internship is documented. The only Citadel-related entry is 'Spring Intern' at Citadel (Apr 2020) whose own description reads 'Participated in the Discover Citadel Spring Program. Learnt about Citadel and Citadel Securities. Took part in mock interviews' - a student insight/spring-week event, not employment; Citadel's own page describes Discover Citadel as a two-day event. All other roles are academic or research (Oxford, Edinburgh, KAUST, WhiRL) or energy-market analysis at Aurora Energy Research, a consultancy forecasting firm rather than a trading/market-making business. Identity is supported; the quant role is not. Source is index-only (LinkedIn-derived enrichment).Sep 17, 2026
- Identity: LinkedIn profile 'Nicolas Cassia Terrazo' (slug nicolas-cassia-terrazo-347735191) is the Argentine IMO contestant Nicolas Cassia; the profile URL matches the caller hint slug and the profile lists the 2016/2017 IMO honors and the same Oxford/Edinburgh trajectory.Sep 17, 2026
- Career timeline (LinkedIn-derived, index-only): Energy Modelling Analyst, Aurora Energy Research (2023-present, Oxford); Graduate Student, University of Edinburgh (2022-2023); Research Intern, KAUST (2021, mean field games under Prof. Diogo Gomes); Research Intern, WhiRL Lab, University of Oxford (2020, reinforcement learning); 'Spring Intern', Citadel Discover Citadel program (Apr 2020); Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Oxford (2019, mathematical physics, wrote Maple software).Sep 17, 2026
- Education: MMath in Mathematics and Statistics, University of Oxford (2018-2022); Research Masters in Stochastic Control, University of Edinburgh School of Mathematics (2022-2023). Before university he attended Trinity College and Instituto Alberto Einstein in Mar del Plata, Argentina.Sep 17, 2026
- Olympiad record: represented Argentina at IMO 2016 (honourable mention, 14 points) and IMO 2017 (bronze medal, 17 points); also 3-time National Champion of the Argentine Mathematical Olympiad and National Champion of the Argentine Informatics Olympiad (2017).Sep 17, 2026
- The 'taiga-693058141' / Citadel Spring Intern lead in the task hint matches this person's Citadel entry but the role is the Discover Citadel student program, not a quant internship; treat as verified-inaccurate for a quant role.Sep 17, 2026
- Current employer Aurora Energy Research is an energy-market analytics and consulting firm (about page: 'team of 1000+ experts blends energy, finance, and consulting experience... market outlooks, advisory support, and innovative software'); its business is power-market modelling and forecasting, so it is an energy consultancy rather than a quantitative trading, market-making or hedge-fund employer.Sep 17, 2026
- Authored/co-authored a talk 'Co-jumping Behaviour in Time-Series and Financial Networks' with Qi Jin, Alexey Kapustin and Zhi Qi in the Statistics and Machine Learning in Finance (sml-fin) seminar series, listed for 28 February 2022 - an academic seminar contribution touching financial time-series, not an industry finance role.Feb 28, 2022
- Public-sector recognition in Argentina: the Municipality of General Pueyrredon / Mar del Plata city and the Buenos Aires legislature passed resolutions recognizing 'Nicolas Cassia Terrazo' for his IMO bronze medal while a 17-year-old secondary student - corroborates the Mar del Plata origin and the olympiad identity.Jul 25, 2017
Worked on a project in mean field games under the supervision of Professor Diogo Gomes.
Worked on a machine learning project. Learnt the basics of reinforcement learning and applied them to various situations. You can find some of the public projects on my Github:
Participated in the Discover Citadel Spring Program. Learnt about Citadel and Citadel Securities. Took part in mock interviews.
Worked on a mathematical physics project and developed Maple software that aided my supervisor with complex computations.
Competition record
Argentina · IMO